[Windflier]

It has to go before the Senate, and it will be dead on arrival.

Please help the rest of us to understand why you feel so confident that this will not pass the Senate. A lot of us need a bit of reassurance at the moment.

[STARWISE]

Bill to help some illegal immigrants may be doomed

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The Senate is expected Thursday to vote on whether to advance similar legislation, but it’s unlikely Democrats can muster the 60 votes needed to advance it past opposition by Republicans and a handful of their own members.

“It’s an uphill struggle,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, acknowledged.

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Their pleas did little to move firm Republican opposition.

“It is not being cold-hearted to acknowledge that every dollar spent on illegal immigrants is one dollar less that’s spent on our own children, our own senior citizens and for all those who entered this society who played by the rules, who paid their taxes and expect their government to watch out for their needs before it bestows privileges and scarce resources on illegals,” said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.

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Hurray for the oft times schizophrenic Rohrbacher!

[Nosterrex]

I can only go by what is being reported in the various news services. I have repeatedly heard for the last week by those that are suppose to know that this will not pass the senate. This is all posturing by house Dems in order to appease their liberal base, but that it has no way of passing the senate. We will find out Thursday if this is true.